➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[Kiki]

Btw.
I have cleaned the heck out of the extra bathroom and just in case taped an out of order sign on the door.
Everyone has been told they are not allowed to even touch the door knob.

I am getting excited about tomorrow morning!

 

[Kiki]

The top row is two fans. One fan is under the light bulb on the left blowing air down, the second fan is blowing air from the right light bulb to the left, making the air circulate.

Want me to take pics of the fans?

The water bottles are to create mass to help the temps better. When there is more mass in the incubate, the heating elements don't have to work so hard to heat.

No you don't have to take pics of them.
I thought there were fans but just wanted to make sure.

I wish I had the Grandma bator in my hands right now so I can play with it.


IF I were to use the dishwasher for my real build it would kinda be dumb huh?
It's too big.
What was I thinking?

 

[Kiki]

This is my newest homemade incubator. I've hatched around 200 quails using it with 2 of the little giant egg turners. I'm currently trying my Muscovy eggs in it right now. I'm only using 1 egg turner currently.
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We have the same black ACU-RITE.

Have you found that one things works better than the other?
By thing I mean the thermometer part vs. the humidity part.

Like could the temp be reading way off buy the humidity be point on?
Vice versa.

 

[Molpet]

I've heard of that happening to those thermos. I forget what to do to fix it...

https://www.wikihow.com/Repair-a-Mercury-Thermometer

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

Haha. Yeah. I'm the one behind all our homestead posts here and on the book. Matthews is our last name. Lolz

Your user name is going to confuse me too!
This hubby reference corrected my original thought.

 

[Kiki]

https://www.wikihow.com/Repair-a-Mercury-Thermometer

The other day when I was at Walmart they had some strip type thermometers too.
I'm thinking I will grab one of those too.

 

[Kiki]

Haha. Yeah. I'm the one behind all our homestead posts here and on the book. Matthews is our last name. Lolz

Did you come over from the Fbook?
Because of the Facebook BYC page?

 

[Kiki]

I've heard of that happening to those thermos. I forget what to do to fix it...

Throw it in the trash fixes it!


I'm trying the heat method..
I tried the forced method and the shaking, neither worked.

 

[MatthewsHomestead]

No. We have a page for our homestead on the book. There's a BYC page on there????

Did you come over from the Fbook?
Because of the Facebook BYC page?

 

[Kiki]

No. We have a page for our homestead on the book. There's a BYC page on there????

Yes there is.
I am not sure if there are many real BYCers on the BYC Facebook page though.
I don't know, I don't use Facebook.

Wait...I know of ONE BYCer who uses Facebook.